I guess that it’s time for the 3rd annual “Ravelry Runs On”
roundup. The last two were in March 2008 and March 2009.

This year, our traffic increased by 50% to 5,000,000 page views
and 15 million Rails requests per day. We made very few changes
to our architecture in 2009 but we did add a new master database
server after our working set of data outgrew our memory and IO
capacity.

This summary is more detailed then the last two and I’ve broken
it up …

There was some incredulityexpressed yesterday when I suggested that SAP is a great case study on the
way in which proprietary companies have engaged with open source.

To be clear, I was not suggesting that SAP is, or should be
considered, an open source company, but based on our
understanding of SAP’s changing strategy with regards to open
source software it represents a good case study on how
proprietary companies have learned …

Last month cloud computing and systems
management expert John Willis published his best of Cloud Computing for 2009 list he calls
the Cloudies. I am not an expert on the latest
developments in cloud computing so it was nice to …

loops is a small and lightweight framework for
Ruby on Rails and Merb created to support simple background loops
in your application which are usually used to do some background
data processing on your servers (queue workers, batch tasks
processors, etc).

Originally loops plugin was created to make our (Scribd.com) own loops
code more organized. We used to have tens of different modules
with methods that were called with script/runner and then used
with nohup and …

Bounces-handler package is a simple set of scripts to
automatically process email bounces and ISP‘s feedback loops
emails, maintain your mailing blacklists and a Rails plugin to
use those blacklists in your RoR applications.

This piece of software has been developed as a part of more
global work on mailing quality improvement in Scribd.com, but it
was one of the most critical steps after setting …

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